Hello to all my dazzling readers. Here is the latest chapter of this story and I'm glad to see that everyone seems to like it. I shall continue on then.
Oh and before I forget I won't be here for a couple of weeks so I don't think the next chapter will be posted up till the middle of august, but I will try to
update when I can. So don't worries. I hope you like this one, review if you want, but it does help.
Have a fun summer,
Anemone
"Ha..I mean Sakura-chan is that really you?"
"Sai-kun" Sakura eyes sparkled. She shoved the plate of cookies she was holding into my stomach and she did what I didn't expect she would do.
She HUGGED him
They say life's full of surprises. Some can be big and some can be small, and that some come in the smallest packages. What I was seeing now, was a surprise that I didn't see or would ever expect coming.
And I knew at that moment I realized he was going to be my rival.
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P.S-I love you
Chapter 3
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Okay any guy in my place would either…..
A) Beat the crap out of the guy who hugging (or in my case molesting) their future girlfriend/ wife.
B) Leave the situation as is, and then come up with a scheme to get rid of the guy in a way that would leave the girl to believe that he either left her or went incognito because he was wanted for illegal substances.
OR if your one of those pacifist guys then you might….
C) Be in denial that your girl was hugging some random guy, and just assume that he was her long lost, cousin second removed on her father's side.
Right now Option A seemed more befitting for me.
I tuned into the conversation happening before me, and like any other guy checked my competition. For some random guy he was pretty good looking. He was around my height, had the same raven black hair, onyx eyes, pale skin complexion, and a very good sense of style.
Its official I've been hanging around Sakura for too long.
TOO LONG
That or I still haven't recovered from my incident with the Rainbow club.
BUT
Either way I had some serious competition. Sakura's fate was at hands here people, and it was my job to become her knight in shining armor.
Don't get me wrong, I didn't mind when boys to talked to Sakura or even get this close to her, but the list was very limited. The fact that I allow Naruto to come within 3 feet of her proves it. It's seems mean that I'm severing her connection to the outside world, but for as long as I've known it's just me and Sakura, no one else and I planned to keep it that way. There was no way that some new guy was butting in on something that I've worked hard to get on the first day.
"Ahem" I cleared my throat, "Sakura do you mind introducing me?" I asked. Both their heads turned their attention toward me and pulled apart from their hug-fest. Sakura blushed and a light tinge appeared on Sai's cheeks as he smirked.
"Sakura I think your boyfriend is getting jealous" he said. I could feel a small blush on my face but I tried to conceal it the best I could, but on the inside I was jumping for joy.Sakura on the other hand pushed away from him and shook her head vigorously,
"N-n-no he's not…Me and Him?!No!"
"But I thought that when two people hug like that it—" he said.
"We need to work on your social skills"
At that point I could have fallen over and died. I looked up to the sky, 'you defiantly hate me don't you?' What have I done to make my life this way? Sometimes Sakura's innocence was the thing that irked me the most.
"Sai this is my awesome, totally cool, and sometimes emo friend Sasuke Uchiha" she said as she pointed in my direction.
"hn" I replied covering up my depression, hoping that he would get that I was here first. Taking notice Sakura rolled her eyes,
"And Sasuke this is my friend for over 3 years, meet my pen pal Sai" she said with a wide smile. Sai smiled with that oh so creepy smile of his,
"Hello Uchiha-san. I certainly didn't expect Sakura to be friends with one of the cities most important families."
"Hn" I grumbled. Sakura rolled her eyes and continued talking to Sai while on the inside I went ballistic.
3 YEARS!? How, wha—whe—ahhhhhh
I didn't see that coming, I honestly didn't see that coming.Where the hell was I when this happened? How in the world could I not know that she had a pen pal, and it lasted for 3 years?!
Think Uchiha, THINK!! When could this have happened, whe—
No it couldn't have been….
Flashback
"Hey Sasuke-kun has your pen pal written back to you?" An excited ten year old Sakura asked her dark haired friend as she shoved her newest letter in his face. Sasuke took his headphones out of his ears and chuckled,
"I never replied back to my pen pal. I don't see why you care they're a waste of time anyway" he said as he put his headphones back in his ears and continued to listen to his music. Sakura on the other hand looked at him with angered eyes,
"That's not true"
End Flashback
How can I be so stupid? We've had those things since like forever, and she still kept up with it? Now it's official I do have competition.
"You know Sasuke-kun if you frown a lot when you're young Sai once told me that it makes you look like an old hag later." She giggled. I looked in the direction of her new buddy and he chuckled along with her.
"Stupid Sai" I grumbled. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Sakura's ears perk up and not in a good way either.
"Well Sai seeing that we're going to be living next door to each other from now on how about we show you around?" She said with a friendly smile, "Don't you think that would be a good idea Sasuke-kun?" Sai shook his head,
"It's okay Sakura-chan. I don't want to be a burden to you and Sasuke's day" Sakura shooed his comment off.
"Nonsense Sai, Sasuke and I were going to lunch after this, so it's no big deal. You are more than welcome to joining us if you want." She finished. I jerked my head up when I realized what she said and I glared. If I was going to pay for lunch then it was going to be for me and Sakura. I sure was hell wouldn't pay for another person other than Sakura. Noticing my attitude toward Sai she pinched me on my side. And boy was it uncomfortable.
"Sakura-chan is he okay" Sai asked. Thank god there was someone to see this, but he wasn't smart enough to see that Sakura was creating it.
"He's just dandy. How about you go put this inside and we'll wait out here for ya."
"Okay" he said with another smile as he disappeared inside. Sakura pinched my side harder.
Oh crap I was screwed.
"Be nice to him!" she exclaimed.
"I will pay for him when hell freezes over." I retorted, "It was just supposed to be you an—" I stopped when she grabbed my ear and pulled until our cheeks touched.
"Sasuke Uchiha you will be nice to Sai or else I will belittle your manhood in public so bad that you'll wish for a sex change." She hissed. Chills ran down my spine.
See I told you she could be scary. She tugged on my ear a little more.
"That doesn't scare me" I blurted out, and my eyes widened.
'Wrong move, total wrong move, oh crap I'm going to hell, I'm going to hell ' I thought. Her nostrils flared and an irk mark appeared on her head,
"It doesn't, huh?" she said as she quickly let go of me. I rubbed my ear in pain and I tried to keep my tears of pain and happiness from spilling. But it still scared me that she stopped something big was coming. I knew it.
"Okay fine. If you're not nice to Sai then you're not invited to my home anymore" she said calmly. My eyes widened. Anymore?! Where else was I supposed to go when ever my mom cooked?
"Your brother and sister won't let you do that."
"Karin might not, but Sasori will" she smirked and folded her arms, "And it'll work if I make something up. It doesn't take much to convince my sister, and you know how she gets when she's mad"
'Okay game over. I am screwed.' I sighed,
"Fine, I'll be nice"
Sakura jumped on me and squeezed me tight. Of course there are perks to being her friend. One was being FREE HUGS!
"Thank you Sasuke-kun! I knew you had a heart after all" she joked
"Hn whatever"
She ran into the house and from the outside I would hear her laughs and words of how I had been kind and offered to pay for him. I looked at the ground.
"The things I do for love" I sighed as I found a pebble and kicked it.
Sitting there in the café made me feel like I was in a bad soap opera. I was the guy who crushed on the innocent girl next door and that very same girl sitting next to a guy who I knew nothing about, and who I currently envied.
Rule number one in the Uchiha code of Conduct is:
Always act like you are God, whether it is mind, body or soul, make sure that people know your presence and worship it. Never show weakness.
I wasn't going to show that I was jealous in front of them, especially him. I was GOD and damn it I was going to rule. Dramatic yep, I know but, if you've ever been around an Uchiha then it's pretty clear that when we want something that money can't buy we make first priority to get it, and my first priority was obtaining a date with Sakura.
"So Sai I'm interested to know why you moved to Japan, Marsielle is pretty far from here"
'hm France huh? Japan's a long distance from home Sai' I thought as I listened to the conversation happening in front of me.
"Well it's kind of hard to say—"
'I knew it, he's a stalker he—"
"But my brother got a scholarship for a school in Tokyo, and our parents live in Okinawa, so it works, I guess" he said, I looked up and gave a quick look before returning back to my coffee. Sakura just rolled her eyes at my behavior and encouraged Sai to continue.
'That still doesn't explain why you live next door to her' I thought as I took another sip. I put the cup down and smirked,
"So what made you move to a home that was coincidentally next to Sakura's?" I asked. I knew I was going to get him on this answer and prove to Sakura that her sweet pen pal was nothing but a pervert. I saw the faint tinge of color rise to Sai's cheeks and he stuttered to get a sentence out.
"W-w-well I didn't know that was her home. My brother and I bought a home that was affordable and was in a nice neighborhood." He said with another creepy smile. He turned his attention away from me and back to Sakura.
"So Hag, how did you and he meet anyway?" I choked on my coffee and I glared ready to start a fight. He called Sakura a hag that was a definite "no no." I inwardly laughed, oh was he going to get it now, was he going to get it now. I waited for punches to be thrown and demands of, "oh no he didn't" or "Sasuke, let me go I just want to talk" to be said but instead I got the exact opposite.
"Oh me and Sasuke have been friends since primary school" she giggled
OKAY there was something defiantly wrong with this situation. Where was the violence, the yelling, and the agonizing pain that I was all too familiar with? How the hell could he not come out unscathed from her evil wrath, most of all how in the world could she allow him to call her a hag? Laughter erupted from the table and I came away from my thoughtless rants,
"No he's just sleepy, because I woke him up to early. Don't mind him." She said
"I think he hates me" he said and I smirked, finally he got the point.
"No he doesn't, he's mean to everyone. My brother says that the reason why all Uchiha's act like that is because they have a stick shoved so far up the wazoo that they can't think straight, but once you get to know him he's a pretty nice guy." she giggled looking at me, "aren't you boy?" she asked as she pat my head. I scowled,
'I'm not a dog damn it' I pulled my head away from her hand,
"Hey hag do you mind showing me around the town. I think I see something that I want to paint."
"Sure" she replied kindly as she rose up from the table, "Hey Sasuke do you want to tag along?"
If I wasn't trying to be nice like she asked, I would have laughed at her request. Me hang out longer with him? Don't think so and it wasn't going to happen so I did what any other logical guy would do. I said no…okay well I didn't say no I said something along the lines of I have to be somewhere but it's the same.
"Okay Sasuke, I'll see you later, your house right?" she asked, I nodded as I left money to cover the bill. As we walked out the door and went out separate ways I couldn't help but feel the changes occurring around me. Sheesh I haven't even known the guy for 24 hours and he seems to have already taken my spot, and Sakura just let it happen. To tell the truth it hurt.
'I bet if I were to walk out into the street and get hit by a bike she probably wouldn't even notice.' I thought to myself as I walked down the sidewalk, heading to see the person that could help me the most.
Knock Knock
Knock Knock
"Okaasan" I said softly as I peered silently into her room, "okaasan?" I called out, and again I was greeted by silence. I closed the door and I walked to my room, hoping that I would find my mom picking up things and looking through my stuff like always, but as I reached my room a piece of paper hanging on my door caught my eye,
My dear Sasu-chan,
If your reading this then you probably noticed that the house is empty, and don't panic!
I went out for a while, Otosan left for a trip, your brother is at class, and the maids are taking the day off.
I'll be back soon
I love you lots my little boy,
xoxo
Okaasan
P.S- If Sakura's coming over then tell I have her favorite snacks and food in the fridge.
My shoulders drooped, looked like I was going to be stuck in my home alone for hours, well if I looked to the bright side then Sakura would be coming over then it wouldn't bad.
Jibun o sekai sae mo kae te shimae sou na
sonzai wa boku no me no mae ni?
Miageta oozora ga aoku sumikitte yuku
Tozashita mado o hiraku koto o kime ta
I picked up the phone excitedly, but I keep my composure, after all I was an Uchiha and showing happy giddy motions on the phone could cause people to think I'm two things,
Either that I'm gay or just plain insane
I held the phone to my ear and in the coolest Uchiha God like voice I could muster I spoke,
"Hello"
"Hey Sasuke-kun, it's me Sakura. I know you probably weren't counting on it but can I get a rain check on coming to your place tonight. Sai and I are at a museum and I was going to take him around a little more"
I felt my stomach drop and I felt a little jelous, okay that's an understatement what I was feeling at that moment was more than jealously, I felt betrayed, but I pretended that I didn't care when in actuality I was hurt.
"No it's okay Sakura.Just be careful okay?"
"Okay, see you later"
"Bye" and I closed my phone, how the hell can he take my place so freekin fast. Not even 24 hours and he's all over her. This sucked so to calmed my nerves I walked to the kitchen to get a tomato, but not before I was interrupted,
KNOCK KNOCK
"Teme open the door!" An irk mark appeared on my head, things could only go from bad to worse and I did not want to get in trouble again for Naruto being in my home. The last time he was here 6 things broke and my room looked as if a hurricane hit it. Not to mention I had insomnia for 2 nights afterward. When you had a blond haired blue eyed idiot living in the same neighborhood as you, and has access to your home nothing then but trouble can happen from there.
And if you don't believe that, then count your blessings, you don't have him running around.
"I know you're in there, open the door!" he yelled. I debated whether to open the door or not and being the person I was and being in the foul mood I was in I decided not to. The more peace I got the better, I wanted to be alone and with him being around wasn't going to help. A loud roar could be heard in the distance and I could feel the smirk on my face grow even more.
"Aw come on teme, it's going to rain let me in!" I walked back up to my room until he said the magic word,
"It's about Sakura, let me in!" hearing that girls name I ran down the stairs and opened the door in a heartbeat. The blond haired boy walked in and shook himself dry like a puppy. I raised an eyebrow when he then began to walk upstairs toward my room, forgetting all about the news he had to tell me. I grabbed a hold of his orange collar and pulled him back. If it was about Sakura then I needed to hear. It just goes to show you that I'm a possessive little Uchiha aren't I, but it can't be helped since is does run in my blood.
"Where do you think you're going?" Naruto looked at me like I was stupid,
"To your room duh" he replied like it was not a big deal.
"Naruto?" I asked losing my cool each passing second.
"yeah"
"What were you going to tell me about Sakura?" I asked. Naruto looked at me and scratched his head with a wide grin,
"Oh that, I just said that so you'd let me inside." He said as he tried to get out of my grip but I made sure to hold him still.
You don't know how bad I wanted to hurt him, which bring me to a halt. The blond idiot in my grasp is my second best friend Naruto. I've known him a little longer than Sakura and can say this he's an idiot but he's like a brother to me. We've done all the manly stuff that girls don't like and waste our lives playing videogames or shooting bottle rockets in the neighbors yards. He can be smart but the thing I can respect is that he never gives up. I glared at him, still holding in my demand to beat him to a pulp.
"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't beat the crap out of you and then throw you out of my house." He sweat dropped and laughed hesitantly,
"Because I brought Halo 3?" he said and my glare intensified as I opened the door. He gave me a pleading look
"Oh come on teme, we're buds here. Why are you going to be like this?" the blond yelled as I pushed him out on my doorstep. The faster I got his out the sooner I would have peace.
"Halo 3, Teme! Halo 3!" he exclaimed. My eyes narrowed,
"I already have it, now go home dobe." I said as I closed the door and let out a puff of air and walked up the stairs to my room. The door opened and closed and he came right behind me. It was official I was going soft, so soft that I left my door unlocked on purpose. Damn I have officially watched too many child flicks with Sakura, look what it's done to me.
"Sheesh what side of the bed did you get up on this morning." He asked
"The usual, now answer my question, why the hell are you in my home naruto?" I demanded, he huffed and crossed his arms
"Doesn't seem like it" he said as Naruto ran into my room and made himself comfortable on one of the two seats in the room. Apparently he had no qualms about making himself comfortable so quickly. He flipped the TV on and turned his attention to me,
"Well to answer your question I'm here because I thought you might want to release all that anger you have by blowing stuff up." he said. Knowing him that wasn't the truth there was more to his story than my well being. I knew it.
"And?" I asked and he flashed me another wide grin,
"That and my parents took away all my systems and kicked me out of the house for the day, but that didn't mean that couldn't come over here." He grinned.
"Shut up and play" I said as I threw him a control
"Someone's pissed" Naruto exclaimed as I took a seat on the nearby couch.
4 Hours Later
"Come on dobe quit being a camper!" I yelled as I jumped up almost throwing the control I had in my hand. I looked at him, and he was huddled in the farthest corner of the seat scared. Lets just say when I'm pissed and want to release my anger, playing video games is not the best option to give me.
"Teme maybe we should you know…quit?" he asked, but I said nothing as I started another game, determined to crap up just so I could get my anger out on something.
"I'm going to take a wild guess and say that this anger is about Sakura right?" he asked. I placed my control down and paused the game, he was sometimes so clueless. If it took him this long to realize that this was about Sakura then was slow, so I answered him with silence and a blatant look. He jumped up and tugged at his hair,
"Teme you've had a crush on her for like what 4 or 5 years already? Tell her already!" he yelled. I rolled my eyes and let out a breath of air,
"I can't because if I do then that attention span of hers will kick in and she'll forget." I said as I got up and paced around the room.
It was true though, like I remember this one time when Sakura and I were in the 2nd grade. Naruto had invited us to his house for his 7th birthday party and everything was going great until me and Sakura were alone. I remember being so nervous around her that time that I told her these exact words, "Sakura I think I like you" and after I had said that I remember her turning pink and smiling. It was cute, but when the party and games were over I asked her what she thought of what I said and she said this, "What did you say Sasuke?" She didn't remember! It hurt me so much that I remember locking myself in my room and communicating with my family through letters being shoved under my door for a week.
"That's mean teme. That was just that one time a LONG time ago besides I told her I liked her and she still remembers" he said as he looked at me and laughed.
"I doubt it" I said as I picked up my control and started the game eager to get all the anger out, but before I could blow anything up he paused it.
"Think that there's more to the story than this, so speak" I scowled but he ignored me,
"Speak"
"Naruto" I growled
"Speak or else I won't I won't go home!" he said as he stuck his hand in the air in a mighty gesture as if he were a god, like he could ever match up to me.
HILARIOUS!
But if I didn't want anything broken I decided to tell him.
"I met Sakura's pen pal and new neighbor today."
"And?" he urged and I stayed silent. The more I thought about Sai the more irritated I got.
"…." I said nothing not wanting to bring up the café incident and the one from this morning.
"I don't believe it, this can't be true. Uchiha Sasuke is showing emotions like jealously? Tell me something I don't know" he said sarcastically.
"I don't know what to do." I said.
"Excu—wait this is new….did I hear you right?" he blinked confused
"I don't know what to do; he's her pen pal and neighbor, not a good mix"
"Whoa sounds like you have come competition" he paused to think, "did you try glaring and being a complete ass that usually scares Sakura's fanboys off." I tugged at my head and growled,
"The guys a social retard, I tried everything, and none of it worked." I said frustrated. The blond rose out of his chair and placed is hand on his chin to think,
"Well it looks like you'll have to be on Sakura's good side if you want to win this." he said but I looked at him, that idiot didn't he know that is what friendship is for? From the look in his face I could tell that he noticed my look and continued talking,
"Being good friends with her is one step, but what I'm saying is to go above and beyond her good side. Maybe bring her favorite flowers to her, or wear her favorite color, buy her lunch, do the things that she likes, just make sure that if you do those things please don't be gay about it. I'm still recovering from the rainbow—" he stopped and fished around in his pocket for his phone.
"Yeah mom I'm at Sasuke's" he listened, "I know but you said out of our home that didn't mean I could…hey dad. How's life been treating yo—3 minutes but our house is one block away how do you expect…what 2 minutes?!
I laughed at his situation. The idiot always found some way to get himself in trouble.
"Okay I'm coming just don't take the ramen, anything but that!" he exclaimed as he shut his phone ran out of my room and down the stairs. I followed suit, seeing my mom enter through the door on the phone.
"Okay I will tell him, bye" she shut her phone and looked at us and smiled, "Hello boys." She turned her attention to him, "Naruto you mother said you have 1.5 minutes to get home" the blond smiled,
"Thanks" he paused and picked up his cell phone, "I'm going, I'm halfway th— are you some kind of stal—yes mam" he said as he closed my door and ran down the street. I laughed at my friend.
"Sasu-chan where's Sakura? I thought that she would be here by now is everything okay?" she asked concerned. I turned to her,
"She went with her new neighbor Sai and showed him around the city" I said glumly. I couldn't help but feel bad to know she wasn't coming and as if reading my mind my mom smothered me in a hug.
"Aw my poor Sasu-chan is jelous like when he was a little boy. Don't worry tomorrows a new day; I'm sure you'll figure out something." She said. I nodded with a plan already in mind. Finally I found a way that I could fix my problems.
Voila( I thnk thats how it spelt?) there is chapter 3 of P.S-I love you. Tommorow I will type chapter 4 and I willl try to have it out before I leave
but like I said there will be a more likely chace that it will come out in mid August or later, because I will be too busy reading BREAKING DAWN!
Is anyone going to get it? I hope it's good. Review if you want.
xoxo
Anemone